"Clive D. W. Feather" wrote in message
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In article , Nick
writes
Speaking of 5-car formations, I've noticed some nice new "5 car stop"
signs
appearing near some of the platform monitors on these routes (surely they
could just use the "6 car stop" positions anyway?

A driver of a 5-car train must stop at the "S" sign if there isn't a
specific "5". Just the same as the driver of an 8 car train can't stop at
the "4" sign if there isn't an "8". Some TOC managements will treat a
failure to do so as a SPAD.

Well, yes, stopping an 8-car at a "4" sign is clearly not sensible, but
there have often been 3, 7 and 11-car formations on the mainline SET routes
and there aren't any "3", "7" or "11" signs as far as I can see, so
presumably the 7-car formations stop at "8" and 11-car stop at "12" etc?
Hence the logic that 5-car formations could just use "6"?

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